⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️4 STARS⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yes, yes, yes! Gabriel Scott has arrived in his tailored suit and sexy British accent!

Suits are the male version of lingerie for women. You show me a man in a nice suit and I’m likely to forget I’m married.

Managed (VIP Book 2) by Kristen Callihan has every piece of sexy you need to fall in love.

Just like my review of Idol (VIP Book 1), I will keep it all the way pretty one this one. No messiness need.

Let’s start with a quick word from the author….

Synopsis

It started off as a battle of wits. Me: the ordinary girl with a big mouth against Him: the sexy bastard with a big…ego.
I thought I’d hit the jackpot when I was upgraded to first class on my flight to London.
That is until HE sat next to me. Gabriel Scott: handsome as sin, cold as ice. Nothing and no one gets to him. Ever. He’s a legend in his own right, the manager of the biggest rock band in the world, and an arrogant ass who looks down his nose at me.
I thought I’d give him hell for one, long flight. I didn’t expect to like him. I didn’t expect to want him. But the biggest surprise? He wants me too. Only in a way I didn’t see coming.
If I accept his proposal, I leave myself open to falling for the one man I can’t manage. But I’m tempted to say yes. Because the real man beneath those perfect suits and that cool façade just might be the best thing that’s ever happened to me. And I just might be the only one who can melt the ice around his heart.
Let the battle begin…

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Now we can move on to my pretty review….

• Gabriel – manager of Kill John, a rock band
• Sophie – social media consultant working with Kill John on their tour

Let us first talk about sexy ass Gabriel for a moment please….This man is beautiful, just fucking beautiful. It’s really not fair if you think about it. He has the sexist accent (as far as us American think).I’m a sucker for a British accent – I even my my husband read some of Gabriel sentences so I could listen to his words come out of another Brit’s mouth. I’m sure he wants a divorce now!!!

But here is the thing, Gabriel knows he is sexy as hell but he doesn’t give a flying fuck. To him, all those women who only want him for his looks turn him off.

“Our situation aside, casual contact irritates me, which means casual sex no longer holds and interest. In truth, I find it repellant now.”  – Gabriel

He sounds so snobby, but I love him.

Hopefully, you have read Idol (VIP book 1) and you know that Gabriel is kind of rude, snobby, closed off, emotionless and difficult to get to know….or so we think. But in book 2 you get a chance to get to know Gabriel aka Scottie in a way we didn’t from book 1. He is quite the opposite of all those things.

I’ve lived in England and have many British friends so I understood Gabriel’s flat personality well. I actually liked his character in the previous book. I knew in book 1 that there was more than and reading it in book 2 just solidified my feeling about him.

My precious Sophie, I just loved her.

Sophie is everything Gabriel needs whether he wants to admit it or not – he didn’t want to admit it, surprise, surprise! She is funny, outgoing, confident but not arrogant, beautiful and opinionated.

I’d wonder if he’s simply arrogant – a perfectly formed man who doesn’t deign to mix with average women like me. But it’s fairly clear he’s this way with everyone. – Sophie

She also has no intentions of putting up with his shit, which I love. While everyone is scared of him she doesn’t care, she messes with him on purpose to help bring him out of his shell.

But Gabriel doesn’t always stay on Sophie’s good side. Just like every other man he has is “idiot” moments. And when they get to a point of disrespect she isn’t having any of that. My kind of girl.

When a woman is fed up there is nothing you can do about it….

“You know,” she says. “I like you just as you are, faults and all. But you clearly don’t accept me for who I am.” 

“That’s not true!” I’m walking faster now. But she’s already at the door, opening it. “Sophie.”

She pauses, but still doesn’t look my way. “Leave me alone, Gabriel. I’ve reached my limit tonight. I can’t talk to you anymore.”

Sophie gives Gabriel something he has always found difficult to obtain, complete acceptance. But can he give it back to her?….

Let me tell you something I don’t think men understand. We will support them until we are blue in the face. We will ride for them, stand by them, accept you for who they are. But don’t get it wrong, we will not be doormats or their punching bags. I loved me some Sophie because she not going to allow him to be disrespectful or treat her like shit.

But Gabriel sees Sophie as his weakness. Weakness is not an emotion that sits well with him. That scares him and he begins to make choices and do things that aren’t healthy for him or for Sophie.

At least Gabriel has some really good friends, I mean check out their advice….

“So, did you apologize to Sophie?” Jax asks.

“Of course. But I cocked it up, and she asked for space.”

“You didn’t give her space, did you?” Killian sounds horrified.

It give me a pause, and I peer up at him. “Wasn’t I supposed to?”

“No, you don’t give them space,” he wails. “That’s only some shit they say to see if you’ll fight for them.”

Outrage punches through me, “Why the bloddy hell would they do that to us?”

“To see if we’re paying attention.” Jax offers.

“To torture us.” Rye counters.

Us women can be so complicated. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!! Love it!

Side bar – What you think when he jacked off with her panties?

I almost died when she found the tucked under his mattress. Men are so weird but you gotta love them.

I can’t say anything negative about this book because I really enjoyed it. It didn’t stress me out much, I loved both main characters, no one annoyed me. It was pretty, pretty, pretty good.

I don’t know if there is going to be a 3rd book but if there is I’m going to reading it ASAP!!!! It’s a good things there is a HEA otherwise I would be going bat shit crazy.

I kept it all the way pretty, so until next time….

TTYL

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